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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years

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Hi!! Its heathen!! I think I found the book that your title is referencing at my local bookstore, and it actually looks pretty interesting! 'Here, there be dragons' by James A. Owen, right?

It was kinda funny to go in there and see some books that I liked (The wheel of time series, I deifnitly reccomend it) and then see a book and was internally like 'Oh!! Quil!! I know someone who I could possibly call a dragon if they would like!!'

heathen! hello! I actually didn't know there was a book series with that title! Though I do completely understand why you would make that connection, as I have been very vocal about my love of dragons for a while! I mean I love monsters in general, but dragons are a kind of monster and I adore them!

the quote "because here there be dragons" is actually centuries old, and the myth is that old mapmakers would write this phrase (specifically "here be dragons") on parts of maps that were uncharted. I don't think any map has actually been found with this phrase (I think a globe was, though!), but it's really intriguing and cool to conceptualize. Kind of like how they would draw the Kraken and other monsters in the ocean for a similar reason to indicate danger! I am not an expert so don't quote me on all this btw, I just think it's fun and have a casual knowledge (partially form my dad who was a sailor in the coast guard).

however, while the quote in relation to maps and danger is really cool, that's not actually why I chose it! I first heard the quote (well, not the first time, but the first time I heard it and it really stuck with me) was in the last season of Black Sails, which is my favorite show of all time (I'm really picky about shows). One of the main characters, Captain Flint, says the line in a really emotion scene in the last season and I remember watching it and just going oh shit, and I haven't been able to forget it since. Here's a link to a gifset of the scene, and it's not the exact same as I have it in my bio but I seriously cannot recommend Black Sails enough. For so many reasons. The plot, the queer characters, the fact that the story literally wouldn't exist if it weren't for queer love, the politics, the way there's so many main characters and everything they do contradicts each others and is so true to themselves. Nothing will ever top it for me and all other shows have been ruined for me since because nothing will ever life up to the chokehold Black Sails had on me. It is a complex and darker story, so be cautious with it! But oh fuck I have never loved a show more.

Before I get completely distracted I will return to your point! It's so cool that you saw a book and thought of me! it didn't even occur to me that I exist to you guys outside of when we interact on tumblr, despite me mentioning several people I've talked to online when speaking to people irl. Also you saying you'd call me a dragon if I like reminds me of a specific interaction Meg and I had where they told me I was like the fandom librarian because I answered so many questions!! (here's the link!) I mentioned having a little dragon in my library, but I'd love to be the dragon too! I'd seriously leave behind this humanoid form if given the chance, and dragons are excellent!

maybe I'll check out that book though, just to see what it's about considering it's stolen my blog title! I say as though I was capable of complex thought in 2006.

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plutouran · 2 years

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hello may i have a romantic mha match up plz<3

Hi my name is rex, i’m queer and use they/them pronouns and i’m 15. And i would prefer someone not over the age of 19 plz.

have like a caramel colored skin-tone (i feel like saying im black may be easier but 🤷🏽‍♀️) and im 5’3. Rn i have a purple-pink short mullet and i have pretty curly hair, im pretty chubby but i have an hourglass shape (but i have super noticeable hip dips) , i got pretty big fucking tittes (not even in a bragging way, im a fuckin k cup bro😭) and thicc thighs(thicc thighs save lives, sorry i’ll stop). I dress pretty alternative but i cant just choose one subculture tho, i wear a lot of heavy eye makeup. I could say i dress kinda “showy” but thats kinda what only fits me, but also who gives a fuck.

Honestly I don’t really have a type. Tbh most of my relationships have ended pretty badly cause they ether only wanted something sexual from me or I was “too clingy” when i just wanted basic ass affection. But the most I want is someone who is physically affectionate (like kisses, cuddles, and hugs for days) also im ok with pda to an extent like i will hug and like cuddle you but im not gonna make out with your infront of others thats weird af.

Im a libra sun, scropio moon, and gemini rising. This means that im a pretty social person and always wanna hang out with friends and just have fun, but moon in scropio makes my emotions rlly haywire and kinda boosts any sorta negative emotion, which is hard when you have chronic anxiety and major depressive disorder. Which also means i take medication for it, which i forget a lot. And because of these things i have anxiety tics, where it ranges to making noices and twitching a bit to full on hitting myself and saying random shit. But I really like making people laugh, it makes me feel helpful, but im also good at being to mother figure for people. I also like playfully bantering with people, like i love you but will full on roast you and get into fake fist-fights. I am a bit of a violent person at times but I have a punching bag and boxing gloves which help a lot. But I only get that angry when someone uses an insecurity of mine against me or is talking bad about someone i love, cause it you do that im beating your ass. I do have a bit of body insecurities mainly about my hip-dips and stomach. But because im curvy i get hit on by adults a lot and its creepy as fuck.

My hobbies include art (painting, drawing), sleeping (because i stay up mad late😭✌🏽), reading comics, Marvel and D.C superheroes, and super villains, cartoons, and anime/manga.

My favorite music genre’s are rock, alternative, emo, rap, and a little bit if indie music.

Personality: funny, sarcastic, creative, kind, inappropriate and the right times. Like im not gonna pull out a dick joke in front of your family

I don’t really have a type and im queer so i dont have a gender preference, but anyone who’s love language is physical affection cause im a clingy bitch

I have a couple ideal dates. So the first one is like an indoor picnic and a movie, an arcade date, and a stargazing date where you get take out or fast food and drive up a hill to see the stars and you like cuddle n shit.

a/n: thank you so much for this! if requests like this are long, i can work with it better!

rex has been paired up with…

— izuku midoriya

your and deku‘s song is fuyu no hanashi by given (this song omg)

(ok so listen! this man will protect you at all cost! there is no one that would fit better!)

firsts things first, he will be really smitten by the way you treat your friends and probably are a ray of sunshine in a group!

what i like the most about deku is the way he treats everyone equal. he‘d never judge you, never betray you and stand up for you!

he‘ll also be there for you. no matter what. he can take you mental health and help you overcome hard episodes.

he‘ll research everything about it, maybe even write it down and treat you right. just tell him what you need! he‘ll do it in an instant.

and if you need space, he‘ll give you that as well.

he‘d be really flustered whenever he hugs you but he gets comfortable with that pretty quickly.

he will give all the attention you need. like fr. he‘d be such a cute boyfriend!

however, putting his cute side away, he will definitely not be afraid to speak up whenever someone messes with you. he‘ll do his best to make you happy.

deku would love to read comics with you and geek about it. like that’s just how he is.

he‘d also be super flustered by your creativity. he thinks that’s extremely cool to be creative! (i do too!)

super long cuddles with him! when he is long asleep and you are still awake, just appreciating the moment!

he‘d practically go on any date with you! but of course, picnic dates are the best! it’s super cute how he prepares everything nicely.

arguments would be super rare. he just bottles some things inside that overwhelm him sometime. talking is key.

#anime #manga #headcanon #writing #fanfic #bnha headcanons #bnha x gender neutral reader #bnha fluff #bnha scenarios #bnha imagines #bnha deku #deku headcanons #deku x you #deku fluff #midoriya headcanons #midoriya imagine #bnha hcs #match ups #matchups

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simpgirlsposts · 2 years

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Hi may i have a haikyuu match-up please<3

- [ ] Hi my name is rex, i’m queer and use they/them pronouns and i’m 15. And i would prefer someone not over the age of 19 plz.

- [ ] have like a caramel colored skin-tone and im 5’3 (short king). Rn i have a purple-pink short mullet and i have pretty curly hair(the ethnic popped off hehe), im pretty chubby but i have an hourglass shape, im pretty busty(im a fuckin k cup bro😭) and thicc thighs(thicc thighs save lives, sorry i’ll stop). I dress pretty alternative but i cant just choose one subculture tho, i wear a lot of heavy eye makeup. I could say i dress kinda “showy” but thats kinda what only fits me, but also who gives a fuck.

- [ ] Honestly I don’t really have a type. Tbh most of my relationships have ended pretty badly cause they ether only wanted something sexual from me or I was “too clingy” when i just wanted basic ass affection. But the most I want is someone who is physically affectionate (like kisses, cuddles, and hugs for days) also im ok with pda to an extent like i will hug and like cuddle you but im not gonna make out with your infront of others thats weird af.

- [ ] Im a libra sun, scropio moon, and gemini rising. This means that im a pretty social person and always wanna hang out with friends and just have fun, but moon in scropio makes my emotions rlly haywire and kinda boosts any sorta negative emotion, which is hard when you have chronic anxiety and major depressive disorder. Which also means i take medication for it, which i forget a lot. And because of these things i have anxiety tics, where it ranges to making noices and twitching a bit to full on hitting myself and saying random shit. But I really like making people laugh, it makes me feel helpful, but im also good at being to mother figure for people. I also like playfully bantering with people, like i love you but will full on roast you and get into fake fist-fights. I am a bit of a violent person at times but I have a punching bag and boxing gloves which help a lot. But I only get that angry when someone uses an insecurity of mine against me or is talking bad about someone i love, cause it you do that im beating your ass. I do have a bit of body insecurities mainly about my hip-dips and stomach. But because im curvy i get hit on by adults a lot and its creepy as fuck.

- [ ] My hobbies include art (painting, drawing), sleeping (because i stay up mad late😭✌🏽), reading comics, Marvel and D.C superheroes, and super villains, cartoons, and anime/manga.

- [ ] My favorite music genre’s are rock, alternative, emo, rap, and a little bit if indie music.

- [ ] Personality: funny, sarcastic, creative, kind, inappropriate and the right times. Like im not gonna pull out a dick joke in front of your family

My description on what i look like is bad so here:

I'd match you with...

Tw.Mention of being s*xualized and p*dos

Iwaizumi Hajime!

He's 18 so he's fine...hopefully-

Now when it comes to type of people I head cannon his types are hot people and your hot sooooo yes-

Now Oikawa is kinda clingy and you're kinda clingy too, so he's good at dealing with clingy people-

But he won't go far as hitting you like he hits shittykawa.He would let you cling onto him whenever you like, he isn't much into PDA just simple holding hands is fine with him.

Oh when you do get s*xualized Iwaizumi might as well throw as many volleyball balls at the guy or practically punch them head on-

Iwaizumi doesn't mind you being social, though he would stick around,and you and Oikawa surprisingly gets along well, but he would stick around and when Oikawa was like “You know Iwa-chan talks ab-”*HIT* Oikawa gets hit by a ball.

When you told Iwaizumi about your medication and how you forget you sometimes, he makes sure you NEVER forget your medication.He wouldn't want it to get worse and he loves you(Much for a tsundere to admit it head on,I mean he would sometimes if he's confident)

He would stop you from hitting yourself and when you say some random stuff he would just listen but would also try to snap you out.

You and Oikawa became besties-

Two hot people as besties

Because of that you would learn more about Iwaizumi and would roast him sometimes for liking Godzilla-

Small cute fistfight when you forget you medication he would sometimes feed it to you if he has too-

You and Iwaizumi sometimes scare Oikawa, especially after he learned that you have a punching bag, Iwaizumi would encourage you to punch it-

Now if a grown adult did hit on you-

Their dead,D E A D! The whole Aoba Johsai volleyball team are hands or decks!Including Iwaizumi and Mad dog!

Now I also have a head cannon that you influenced Iwaizumi to on DC superheroes and Marvels-

While he also influenced you on Godzilla

You and Iwaizumi kinda have the same taste in music so you both would listen together sharing a headsets!

He finds your sarcasm funny,your creativity amusing and your inappropriate jokes at right time also amusing,Oikawa sometimes doesn't get you but you both are besties no doubt.

You and Iwaizumi are basically the balanced type of couple purfect for each other(´ε｀*)

Honestly people who s*xualizes you and use your body are sick like you deserve better than all of your other ex.And grown adult trying to hit on you?!I can't believe grown adults would do such a thing like their old!Old crusty musty p*dos!

I hope you had the best day!

#haikyuu #haikyuu!!#iwaizumi imagine #iwaizumi hajime #matchups #hq oikawa #aoba johsai #mad dog #click for hq #iwa chan #iwaizumi headcanons #iwaizumi fluff

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duckymcdoorknob · 2 years

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hello may i have a haikyuu matchup plz<3

Hi my name is rex, i’m queer and use they/them pronouns and i’m 15. And i would prefer someone not over the age of 19 plz.

My hobbies include art (painting, drawing), sleeping (because i stay up mad late😭✌🏽), reading comics, Marvel and D.C superheroes, and super villains, cartoons, and anime/manga.

My favorite music genre’s are rock, alternative, emo, rap, and a little bit if indie music.

Personality: funny, sarcastic, creative, kind, inappropriate and the right times. Like im not gonna pull out a dick joke in front of your family

I don’t really have a type and im queer so i dont have a gender preference, but anyone who’s love language is physical affection cause im a clingy bitch

CAN-

CAN WE BE FRIENDS PLS

POR FAVOR

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN

OKAY DOWN TO BUSINESS

I match you with……..!

Ryuunosuke Tanaka!

I just get such big vibes that Tanaka would be head over heels for you.

First and foremost: the 7 inch height difference? Yes please.

He loves to rest his arm on your shoulder bc it’s just so cute to him.

He loves your style??? I think Tanaka is also an alt Boi himself.

I’m talkin ripped jeans, skater Boi tees. Like he already wears beanies???

He loves your hip dips bc he swears that his hands fit perfectly on your hips.

HE WILL WANT YOU TO DO HIS EYE MAKEUP BC HE LOVES YOURS

Tanaka is always down for a night on the town. He loves being social and hanging with people.

But I also think that big crowds might intimidate him in just the slightest

He’ll never tell tho.

So I think he’ll cling to your forearm if he gets nervous.

Whenever you have the big sad, he brings over stuff to make nachos and dances to absolutely no music when he walks in your home.

“I’m dancing to the music in my head. And the music we’re about to be listening to”

I think that this man LOVES Hispanic music.

During your tics, he just kinda acts like it doesn’t happen if that makes sense? He doesn’t want you to feel bad or insecure about them so he just doesn’t even react to them.

Of course If you start hitting yourself too much, he’ll step in and give you a pillow to hold just in case.

Please wrestle and fake fight with him. Please he needs to be knocked down a peg

He likes to nerd out over marvel movies with you!!

I’m talkin he’s laying upside down on a beanbag and freaking out everytime something cool happens.

Always some kind of physical touch is included, and he treats you like a deity.

“GUYS THIS IS MY PARTNER AREN’T THEY SO CUTE!!”

If anyone even TRIES to agree, he gets hELLA possessive lmao.

He is a simp. Expect gifts.

Finally, I think that he would like to go on dates like roller skating and arcade, but the day you tell him about how much you want to go stargazing, he’ll take you.

He ends up loving it and that’s what you do for your anniversary every single year!

#matchups #haikyuu matchups #cosmic chaos

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justafairytailofinnocence · 2 years

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I know i have had a matchup here before but i would rlly love a naruto one cause i have had a super shitty day and yeah<3

Hi my name is rex, i’m queer and use they/them pronouns and i’m 15. And i would prefer someone not over the age of 19 plz.

My hobbies include art (painting, drawing), sleeping (because i stay up mad late😭✌🏽), reading comics, Marvel and D.C superheroes, and super villains, cartoons, and anime/manga.

My favorite music genre’s are rock, alternative, emo, rap, and a little bit if indie music.

Personality: funny, sarcastic, creative, kind, inappropriate and the right times. Like im not gonna pull out a dick joke in front of your family

I don’t really have a type and im queer so i dont have a gender preference, but anyone who’s love language is physical affection cause im a clingy bitch

Hello dear💖 for Naruto I ship you with:

Kakashi😷

- he is a very quiet person and half the time he would only allow you to see under his mask.

- he would try to cuddle with you unless of course you don't want to he respects that.

- becareful not to dress in anything too slim or he may get a nose bleed.

- he would be the one who's always calm when your angry and hug you to calm you down.

- you were quite a high ranking ninja. He would entirely train you to help with your jetsu.

- your the one he would devote to and beileve me (despite the nose bleeds) he never married or had any children so your the only special one.

- you would end up marrying one day and have some children. They would have your eyes and your hair.

Anyways that's all I have for now:

Ta Ta 💫

#naruto matchup #naruto matchups open

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cherryblossomriot · 3 years

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I haven’t posted for a while but I feel that in light of the supernatural series finale, I have a lot to say.

I...feel used. Severely. I feel mislead and heartbroken and just really upset that I was given a sliver of something I so desperately wanted and then told to fuck off. Look, going into season 15, I knew Destiel would never happen, and I made peace with that, because I knew that even if I didn’t have a canon-confirmed relationship, I still knew, inherently, that Dean and Cas were in love, and that I could always read about them being so via fanfiction. But then, s20e18 rolled around, and I dared to hope. I wanted their love to be confirmed so badly that I let myself hope, which was something I had warned myself against time and time again. And with the finale....I was so hoping we’d get Cas back. I was so hoping for an “I love you too” from Dean, but instead, I got Dean dying young and Sam in a spray-paint beard and all my brain was doing was trying to cope by thinking “It’s all wincest?” “Always has been.”

And I was trying to think to myself, I should be happy, after all the show does have a focus on Dean and Sam, and its okay that they got that time to say goodbye to each other. But then I thought, “Wait wtf no”, because there’s nothing about that whole ending that made it better. It was just ye ole codependency for the win, and 2 mentions of Cas that I clung to like I was drowning and someone had threw in some fishing twine for me to pull myself out of the water. Maybe if Dean had died, and CAS greeted him, it would have sat better with me, but he didn’t, and Dean drove off in his car (because that’s still apparently his longest canonical relationship which is so SAD supernatural please just let him be bi and happy) and nothing felt right. I feel sick. Numb.

I don’t have cable, so originally, I had planned to wake up severely early before my 8 AM class and cram the finale in before hand, but I woke up at 1 and just thought, “Screw it.” I was giddy, nervous, and stupidly, stupidly hopeful. And I know the hope I felt, like the hope we all felt, was not my fault, but it still hurt to have it thrown back into my face, like gritty bits of sand flung onto an open, palpitating heart.

And I know I should be mad at SPN. I should be raging and furious at the writers and should be upset that ANYONE thought that THAT monstrosity would satisfy fans after EVERYTHING, but I don’t have the energy. All I want to do is sit and cry and pretend I never watched the finale, that I was mistaken, and that tonight’s Wednesday, and there’s still one more day, still 24 hours of looking forward. But its not.

You know what’s hilarious? Between the time I fell asleep last night and the time I woke up to watch the finale, I dreamt of Dean tearing down the world for Cas, and when I woke, all I could think was, “maybe that’s what’ll happen.”

Oh, how I wish I’d never woken from that dream at all, and slept right up to just before my class starts. It would have been better than this.

And no, I didn’t need a kiss, though I severely wanted one, and y’know, it’s not even that much to ask. But you know what I did need, that should have been a necessary part of the two episodes after Cas says “I love you” and Dean can’t process it? An “I love you too”, because without it, it just feels like another unraveled thread from a tapestry that has been weaved over fifteen years, with parts added to it only to all be reduced to the place where it started. Because without it, Dean Winchester is only bi in theory, Cas died for nothing, and 12 years of slow burn just resulted in a match dwindling down so low it burnt my fingers, then went out.

It means the characters that mean so much to me-that helped me though emotional turmoil and taught me so much, whose relationship is so forceful and beautiful and compelling to me-they didn’t get what they deserved. They were what they always had been, “not cut-out for the apple-pie life” and “not family”.

And the queerbaiting, I want to yell about it, I want to tear down the world like I wanted Dean to for Cas, but I’m so tired. You guys rage all you want....but I can’t anymore.

And the homophobia.....I know Misha and Jensen aren’t homophobic, and in my heart, Dean Winchester’s queerness is such an inherent, integral part of his character that I could never once, not even for a joke, call him straight, but I feel as though this show really said, “You’re queer? Here have the most beautiful love story ever but it’s never explicit and one sacrifices himself for nothing after an open-ended confession and the other dies two days later anyway and they don’t see each other on screen again. You’re queer? Here, have this relationship that can never fully be confirmed because somehow your love is less than, your existence is meant to be shoved aside for gray wigs and classic cars, your relationships aren’t worth it.”

And I wish I could petition for more, I wish I could pull a Sherlock fandom and believe that there’s another secret ending out there, but it’s done. And I’m done. They can’t hurt me anymore, because there’s no more skin left to burn, no more heart left to stomp on. They’ve done it all already.

Now, I get to ignore the canon like I always meant to. I get to sleep at night knowing that Dean Winchester helped me figure out my own sexuality, but he did that because I wanted him to. I get to read fanfiction and know that Castiel will always fall for Dean, that Dean will always love him back, and there will be no restrictions on their love, no rules, no policing, no subtext to be mocked for reading into.

Like Pur(gay)tory, their love is pure, untainted by straight producers who want to warp our minds, homophobic tv channels, antis who just want to see people suffer.

Dean and Cas is mine. And all of ours. Not the show’s. Not the writers’ or the producers’ or anybodies’ but OURS. And I will go to my grave believing that.

“You asked what about this is real. We are.”

#supernatural #supernatural fandom #Destiel #season 15 #s15 finale #s15 spoilers #dean winchester #castiel #DEANCAS #castiel and dean #bi dean #bisexual dean winchester #like yayy its voltron all over again but i don't have the emotional spryness of my youth to fuel me to murder #cas #purgaytory

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hartleytrashaway · 4 years

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agirlwithachakram replied to your post “i’m really torn between ‘hooray my beautiful son is back’ and ‘cool,...”

asdf,ansdf,nasd,mf RIGHT??? why is this show so straight in all the worst possible ways, how is it so fixated on talking about feelings of (SOME OF) the main characters to the detriment of getting into the big ideas that matter and inform their lives and traumas and why do they keep writing in hartley only to write him out instantly?

so i haven’t regularly watched the show since the end of s3 but didn’t they have some weird therapist mini-arc that didn’t go anywhere or actually address anybody’s problems? please correct me if i’m wrong. but i’m forever baffled by this show’s alternately glib and heavy-handed approaches to its extremely fucked-up characters. (even back when the show was good they really hand-waved a lot of shit away. jesse basically has no recovery time whatsoever from prolonged captivity and i’m still fucking uncomfortable about that.) it’s always had this inconsistent and wrong-headed approach to trauma despite dealing with some incredibly weighty issues.

i absolutely think the show has been the most notorious one in the arrowverse for just so thoroughly shitting on the legacies of almost EVERYONE in the cast. the way they’ve just decimated the rogues has rankled me for years (see above re: glossing over serious issues, bc lisa snart is exhibit A), but they’ve also paid majorly important characters like wally, linda, etc. dust or sacrificed them on the altar of barry as golden god. i don’t even know who half the names are in the recaps anymore, and honestly, i don’t even care enough to look them up because i don’t want to get invested in someone the narrative will probably screw over for, idk, barry making stupid-ass decisions and being sad about it. (i get that barry is the main character, but don’t keep shoving teamwork and family down my throat as themes when you fuck over everyone in barry allen’s periphery.)

and hartley.......just a fucking case study in What the Fuck are Y’all DOING on This Show? there’s something about the constant betrayals of hartley that specifically hurt more than other characters. part of that is because the characters will create a problem for themselves that would be perfect for hartley to help solve (and they just forget he exists), but also hartley was set up with an incredibly intriguing backstory/identity/relationship to team flash, and the writers squandered literally everything about it. hartley is just as much of a victim as caitlin and cisco in terms of betrayed employees, and in many ways more of a victim because of the closeness of his relationship with harrison (regardless of whether it’s interpreted as platonic or romantic/sexual) and the viciousness with which harrison destroyed him. (it’s worth noting that it isn’t barry who beats hartley on the bridge in 1x11; it’s harrison, and his defeat is gruesome and brutal.) the show kicks the shit out of hartley, sometimes literally, and never reckons with the nastiness of the extra abuses they heap on a traumatized, isolated abuse victim.

the ostensibly happy endings they give him are, like practically everything else, a nice sheen of Good News covering some really ugly content. 2x17 brings hartley back and gives him his hero moment and shows him happy and fulfilled...and then slips on a banana peel and slides right into the fucking trash by asking him to reunite with his homophobic parents. it feels even worse to show how crisis dicked over his timeline again. it cheapens his first and best episode by retroactively wiping out his pain and grief and desperate vengeance. the hartley we meet in 1x11 has been driven to this point by the continuous betrayals of the authority figures in his life and runs rampant because no one was there to temper him. it’s obvious that he’s alone in the world and has been for a while. sliding in a Cool Fix-It Boyfriend is a band-aid solution that disrespects hartley (and roderick, who exists only to be that good dick, i guess?) by stripping his history and motivations, again. i can’t be the only queer who fell in love with hartley because he was traumatized and ostracized and angry about it, and he gave voice to all those bitter feelings. every new retcon, every time they dangle a mention or appearance of hartley, only to squash our hopes with whatever stupid-ass narrative device they’ve got this time, becomes more and more insulting.

like -- we get hartley meeting another harrison. this should be a fucking powder keg of a moment. i’ve been wishing that we could have seen this since s2, and i wanted so badly for hartley to be able to just unleash all the grief and hurt at someone who may not be the original harrison, but who still wears harrison’s face. and they just fucking whiffed it by having it be another opportunity for hartley to play the horny gay kid. on the surface: extremely in keeping with who hartley has always been, which is sarcastic, into tom cavanagh, and DTF. it’s one of those things that’s fine if you don’t think about it too hard, or if you go full lizard brain about it and just go ‘lol hartley wants to bang u.’ but it’s also so fucking deflating for hartley as a fully-realized character -- in one fell swoop, hartley’s supposed antagonistic relationship that has practically been his raison d’être in his past appearances becomes a blip on the radar so minor he can crack jokes about wanting to ride the cock express all the way to double-bang town. it invalidates his struggles and whisks away so much of what made him a rich, relatable character in the first place.

anyway sorry i wrote a fucking essay you didn’t ask for. ima wrap this up even though i have a ton more to say, bc otherwise i will legit be here for hours getting mad about the fucking POTENTIAL this show has and refuses to take advantage of.

#agirlwithachakram #guess i just can't stop myself from ranting and raving when it comes to h raths #hartley rathaway #the flash #the flash spoilers #long post #sorry followers!!

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land-of-brains-and-chocolate · 5 years

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god it WILL NOT stop bothering me until i talk about it. the way we got here. it’s not just about the book anymore, not at all, and it’s certainly never been about “shipping”, at this point it’s how helpless the tactics of the guy make me feel.

step one: refer to people who have read previous venom books and noticed the trend throughout the nineties to portray eddie and the symbiote as a man and an agender alien in an ambiguously or not-so-ambiguously romantic relationship, which was picked up on and completely unambiguously canonised in the very last run, consistently refer to these people as “shippers”, lovingly condescend to them, do not ever treat “the ship” as existing beyond their imagination

[I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS EXIST]

result: make people forget that this is a complete misrepresentation and he has received no criticism whatsoever for “not making a ship canon” because that is not what he did, he decanonised it and then denied doing so and painted everyone it ever meant something to as essentially deluded - and, considering that that’s all they are, he’s being awfully kind and accommodating, isn’t he?

evaluation: a reason to harass him? no! really kind of manipulative? yes!

step two: actively seek out these no-good shippers on tumblr! tell them that you’re watching them! read their detailed posts in which they express their grievances about your comic book to their friends and misrepresent their points on your twitter so your bajillion followers can affirm that Those People are categorically wrong about everything!

[EDDIE IS CODEPENDENT]

people are mad at him because he said eddie was codependent! not because he’s reframing the extremely rare story of a troubled queer relationship that was ultimately still a redemptive force in these characters’ lives as an unhealthy compulsion that corrupts, hm, what a fresh and unfamiliar take, no reason why this would strike a nerve - and, recently, of course, as something inherently abusive, every bit of hope and change for the better vile and fake.

literally just start vaguing about people’s personal tumblr blogs on your professional twitter account with the little, little blue checkmark and everything, use that to make passive-aggressive references to people’s posts! why not!

[LOVE EACH OTHER]

people talk about how they like a symbiote and its host getting along (and they did, that very night, talk quite a lot about ngozi)? that is so dumb and lame.

[EVERYTHING IS AWESOME]

people get sick of edgy shock factor writing that throws one dark theme after another at them without treating any of them with the consideration they deserve? people expect some moments of levity in a venom book?

they’re asking for stories with no conflict where nothing bad ever happens! but it’s okay, he knows better, he knows you just don’t know what you want! it’s not like endless sadness is just as likely to be dreadfully boring or unintentionally hilarious as endless happiness!

result: o w n e d god he sure is shutting down every point no one has ever made

evaluation: a reason to harass him? no! really kind of manipulative? yes!

step three: literally get so mad at people on tumblr talking about your comic that you not only boil their opinions down to THE SHIIIIP but literally say that their opinions don’t matter because they literally would never say it “to your face” literally because it’s “easy to be brave on tumblr”

literally

say these words

[IT’S EASY TO BE BRAVE ON TUMBLR]

call people chicken shits for NOT talking to you directly! and then! BLOCK everybody who talks to you directly! or quote retweet them so your followers can descend like vultures! actually acknowledge that it takes bravery to interact with you if you’re in the Tumblr Demographic, you know, one of Those People, and frame yourself as in the right for it???

am i losing my mind???

[SIX PEOPLE ON TUMBLR]

get so mad at people on tumblr talking about your comic that you not only claim they’re the only people ever to talk badly of it but imply that you’re one step away from namedropping the specific perpetrators. that’s not ominous at all!

it’s an age-old question: how many times does one of marvel’s top writers with legions of fans have to imply his antagonistic awareness of your specific existence before you’re on a first name basis? and also paranoid?

result: stir shit. be a shit stirrer. faint when your shit stirring does in fact stir shit. you can’t go “you would never” and be surprised when people do, you... can’t...

evaluation: a reason to harass him? no! really kind of manipulative? yes!

step four: whip out your ally card... to whip the people you’re supposed to be allied to with it. try to use your knowledge of queer issues to shut down actual queer people.

[I DON’T THINK IT’S APPROPRIATE TO ASSUME GENDER]

either that, or straight-up make a “did you just assume my gender” joke. i can’t find the original tweet anymore, so it’s possible it was that and he deleted it because it was too blatant, lol.

result: MAYBE YOU GUYS WERE THE PROBLEMATIC ONES ALL ALONG

evaluation: a reason to harass him? no! really kind of manipulative? yes!

step five: remember that interview where he outright stated that he just wants to, just to be the definite venom run? just to put the biggest dent in canon he can? just to break everybody’s toys and emerge victorious as the one person with the valid take on venom?

yeah, those things become more noticeable in the actual book, over time, and acceptance of that is, uh, not universal? not everybody’s up for him spending several issues in a row on e s t a b l i s h i n g d o m i n a n c e by having eddie sit around as other characters tell him that a ton of stuff other writers from michelinie to thompson to costa to kaminski to slott to jenkins have done actually sucked and was wrong and fake and never happened? through retcons that make no sense, like, factually don’t fit?

people don’t like you walking back character and relationship development to further your end goal of recasting the symbiote as the personification of addiction and abuse instead of itself a survivor of extreme abuse who has been constantly denied personhood in a way that is frighteningly resonant and who has been going through a genuine redemption arc for years now?

people don’t like you acting like eddie never had a reason for being who he is before and you had to make one up? one that doesn’t fit the character at all, which you didn’t realise because you apparently thought the character had no characterisation before you came along?

you can imagine how these things might spark nerd rage?

and you can probably imagine who this nerd rage was blamed on, yeah?

these criticisms inherently require knowledge of venom canon, because they’re largely about disrespect for it, these criticisms are not related to shipping of any kind - but of course the only thing people could possibly be mad about is the "ship", the only ones making a fuss are those “shippers”, those casuals, Those People who only care about One Thing and don’t understand the real gritty reality of the, god you get it i’m making fun

[I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT]

you’re the only one, don. it’s true.

and i know, i know for a fact, that he’s been aware of criticism from other groups all along, that he was, for example, witness to this livestream that spends like a solid hour a month mercilessly dragging him through the dirt, and you know what the extent of his response was?

thanks for checking the book out.

that’s it. that’s all. this guy hasn’t gotten any less loud about criticising him, either. wishing for his book’s cancellation and retconning. but nothing more. he gets to keep to himself. he is #valid.

people have been taking the piss out of him on youtube, on reddit. only tumblr ever earned his ire. only tumblr gets namedropped at convention panels.

and now, now more than ever? you better believe your regular run-of-the-mill nerds, straight, male, utterly uninterested in the icky stuff, everything, are mad. almost everyone who’s truly tits deep in venom lore is mad.

and so he’s said he’s received threats. and i’m sure he has. i’ve received threats. you’ve received threats. it’s never okay. it sure as shit never helps to send them.

he’s gotten a lot of fucking inappropriate personal vitriol! lots of it actually “ship”-related! i’m categorically against contacting the guy for any reason!

but who is to blame? who do people accept as being to blame? who do news outlets report on as being to blame? when, i presume, not every single one of them actually went “i’m doing this specifically because i’m a (thunder clap) shipper”? when large-scale retcons are literally always met with nerd rage? when a shipper-less fandom probably still would’ve had threats?

[THIS IS INSANE]

[IT’S THE SHIPPERS]

result: if all criticism = “shippers”, and “shippers” = harassment, then everyone who has no actual idea of what’s going on but who doesn’t like “shippers” is automatically on his side and nobody who isn’t a “shipper” wants to risk the association by criticising him.

get this stuff out to his followers, to news outlets, to people completely uninvolved and contextless, and watch the bile run over everywhere because lots of people are ready to accept this narrative in comic book spaces.

have people in the replies and comments eagerly discussing how this is more proof that c+o+m+i+c+s+gate was right and they’re the only reasonable ones. how disgusting and crazy "shippers” are. how donny should keep doing his best to trigger the gays. there’s no pushback against these ideas.

and i’m so fucking stuck between wanting to defend the man, wring my hands and apologise on behalf of the other These People, because i don’t see anything justifiable in their actions, and in being... just... just so frustrated... with everything... with throwing everyone out to the dogs... and claiming that he doesn’t mean to... when he has this whole history of belittling "shippers” specifically... of making sure their public image is that of people who just don’t know what they’re talking about and are in no way worth empathising with... of only drawing attention to the aggressive ones and blocking the reasonable ones

when he literally only stands to benefit from doing all this.

this is massive amounts of free positive pr.

this makes him essentially immune to criticism of any kind.

evaluation: a reason to harass him? no! really kind of manipulative? yes!

i forgot! somewhere along the line, he did do something very good and disavowed association with co/mics/ga/te!

[C0M1C5G8]

why the fuck am i censoring? tumblr search stopped working decades ago.

anyway, it should come as no particular surprise why these people assumed he would side with them. not that any high profile writer who values his standing would, really. are there any? maybe there are, i’m not up to date on this drama.

i just think it’s funny - genuinely not his fault, but hilarious - that this was apparently enough to inspire a “boycott”? and it was a fart in the wind?

which is the least surprising thing ever because there is actually nothing whatsoever to hold these people’s ire to be found in venom? excluding aliens, there has been one real and present character who isn’t a white guy in 11 issues? it is actively less queer than it was before? donny has never caved to the essjaywoo pressure in any way, shape or form? what were they... thinking? it’s almost like these people are dumb?

all they've done is ensure that, without it actually doing anything, venom gets the commendation for being A Comic The Gators Don't Like?

anyway.

what do we do moving forward? i don’t know. nothing. not harassing anyone. keep being salty on tumblr. do not engage him. i think i’m more about stalling the chain reaction he’s caused than the man himself. if you’re not a “shipper”, of course, keep posting your criticism, maybe stand up for “shippers” who are being dogpiled over genuine criticism, don’t let people say This Is All Proof Of How You Can’t Have Queer Content Because Queers Are Crazy.

and be nice to mike costa.

#i feel a lot better actually #it sure took a lot of words to achieve that

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